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Teaches Lessons:
Online, In Person
Levels:
Beginner, Intermediate
Teacher Since: 2005
Pricing: $45/hour
Listing Created: 11/17/2011
Listing Updated: 11/17/2011
More About Me
Hello out there. Thanks for stopping by. I am mostly known as a banjoist, but I am an old-time fiddler too. I teach primarily by ear.
I really enjoy teaching. I think hard about all my students, and try to find the material and approach that will lead each of them to where they want to go. I get a lot of satisfaction as my students advance and experience themselves in the music. I like interpreting the traditions that have come to mean so much to me.
Here is a brief bio:
Chuck Levy has earned the title of Florida's Old-Time Banjo Champ, as well as being a prize-winning Florida fiddler. Originally from Ohio, has been playing old-time music in north central Florida of the last 11 years. He is equally at home on the fiddle, the 5 and 6 string banjos (five strings plus a short string), whether fretted or fretless, playing clawhammer, 2 finger up-picking, or minstrel styles. Chuck also plays the akonting (ekonting), an African ancestor to the banjo, which he studied in The Gambia and Senegal. Chuck directs and teaches at the Suwannee Banjo Camp www.suwanneebanjocamp.com, and the Stephen Foster Old-Time Music Weekend, and also has taught at the Mars Hill Blue Ridge Old-Time Music Week. He is the founder and past president of the Florida Banjo Society and a past president of the Florida State Fiddlers Association. Chuck teaches fiddle and banjo in Gainesville, Florida. Chuck is a consultant and endorsed artist for Gold Tone, which designed the OT-6, a 6-string banjo, to his specifications.
Comments
I'd love to take lessons from you. I'm a beginner with a great desire to be able to play old time. Please let me know how to get in touch with you - cowgirl7
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